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A video from solidarity meeting with striking Maruti Suzuki, Suzuki Powertrain and Suzuki Motorcycles workers held at Kamla Nehru Park, Gurgaon on the evening of October 17, 2011

The fifteenth general elections to the Lok Sabha took place in April-May 2009 and in order to ensure free and fair coverage by the media, the Press Council of India issued guidelines applicable to both government authorities and the press. After the elections, a disturbing trend was highlighted by sections of the media, that is, payment of money by candidates to representatives of media companies for favourable coverage or the phenomenon popularly known as ―paid news‖.

communal violence after independence is not the same as in the pre-independence era. Currently, it is targeted violence, targeted for political goals and assisted by the attitude of the political leadership, bureaucracy and police. So here, identifying a group is not to divide the nation.

It would be in the interest of secular forces to support the communal violence Bill if communal violence is to be contained.

Most academicians at Delhi University are feeling betrayed by their own fraternity, the reason — the Academic Council’s recent decision to drop from the history syllabus a celebrated essay by the late scholar and linguist A. K. Ramanujan on the Ramayana, despite intense opposition from the history department.